Color print

Museum number:
17-394
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21170000394
Accession number:
Acc.1107 and Acc.1394
Description:
Reproduction of Navajo sand painting.
Donor:
Laura Adams Armer and Norman E.A. Hinds
Culture or time period:
Navajo
Maker or artist:
Laura Adams Armer
Collector:
Laura Adams Armer
Collection date:
1961
Place depicted:
Arizona and Ganado, Apache County, Arizona
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Paintings (visual works)
Production date:
ca. 1930
Accession date:
1953 and 1961
Department:
Drawings and paintings
Dimensions:
width 50.8 centimeters and height 66.04 centimeters
Title:
The Star Chant (Title Subject)
Comment:
Unframed. Arizona: Ganado. 17-385 - 17-404 were painted in connection with a five reel motion picture on sand painting, under the direction of Laura Adams Armer for Lorenzo Hubbell. The sand paintings from which these copies were made were done by one or more Navajo priests of the Mountain Chant, ca. 1930.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Color print, accession number 17-394, described as Reproduction of Navajo sand painting.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Color print, accession number 17-394, described as Reproduction of Navajo sand painting.

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